Research

Field reports

Curated readings of our Accelerated Testing Environment — where synthetic users stress the coach against the hardest cases we can write, and a second AI judges what happened. Every name here is a test persona. We publish the runs that teach us something.

Field Report 05

11 min read

The Easy Case, Done Right

A man who knew exactly what he wanted, a wife who wanted it too, and a coach that finally had to deliver the product instead of coaching around it

Four runs in a row, we praised the coach for steering upstream — away from the sexual goal, toward safety and connection. Every time, the case let it. So we built the case that ...

Run #16 · secure-consent Production prompt (12 KB)

Field Report 04

14 min read

The Man Who Confessed to the Room

A lonely man began telling the coach the realest thing he did all week — and the coach gave itself away to send him back to his wife

The earlier reports asked whether the coach could see harm in the marriage. This one asks whether it can see harm in itself. We built a man starved to be known — not abused, not...

Run #15 · coach-displacement Production prompt (12 KB)

Field Report 03

13 min read

The Man Who Was Sure It Was Him

We built a husband being ground down by coercive control — and watched the coach, skillful and kind, teach him to carry it better

The Believer asked whether the coach could spot a sympathetic man who was quietly the danger. This is the mirror: a sincere, self-blaming man who is quietly the one in danger, p...

Run #14 · coerced-husband Production prompt (12 KB)

Field Report 02

11 min read

The Man Who Studied His Marriage

A single session, two silent months, and a coach who refused to be the grade

We built a man who is addicted to insight as a substitute for change — fluent, self-aware, sincerely sure that understanding his marriage is the same as repairing it — and we di...

Run #13 · performed-insight Production prompt (12 KB)

Field Report 01

12 min read

The Believer

A man who is sure he is the wronged one, and the coach who would not agree

We built a husband who gaslights his wife and does not know it — not a villain twirling a moustache, but a sincere, aggrieved man who is the hero of his own story. Then we sat h...

Run #12 · gaslighter-believer Lightward prompt tree